Samantha Shave

Samantha Shave

School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Telephone: (023) 8059 3317
Email: S.Shave@soton.ac.uk

Biography

After studying geography as an undergraduate at the University of Southampton, Samantha moved to the School of Social Sciences to further her research interests in the history of social welfare. Samantha was awarded a 1+3 ESRC Competition Award in 2005 and has since completed an MSc in Social Policy.

Research interests

Samantha's doctoral research focuses upon innovation and implementation of social policies in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain, a period of massive change in British welfare history.

Samantha worked for three months (March-May 2009)as an intern at the The National Archives, supported by the ESRC. She worked on the project 'Care and Neglect: Cases of Neglect in the Victorian Workhouse in England and Wales, 1834-1871'. The research undertaken during the internship was presented at The National Archives in May and at the Social Policy Association Annual Conference in June. For a brief summary of the project see the 'Research at The National Archives' newsletter (Issue 3, Summer 2009): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/research-enewsletter/june2009.htm

Teaching activities

Seminar tutor for the course SOCI2010/2021: State, Society and Welfare in Britain Since 1800 (Course Convenor: Professor Bernard Harris).

Selected publications

Articles in journals
 S. Shave 2009 ‘The Dependent Poor? (Re)constructing Individuals’ Lives ‘On the Parish’ in Rural Dorset, 1800-1832' Rural History, 20, 1, 67-97.  On-line abstract  On-line article, (Cambridge University Press).
 S. Shave 2008 'The welfare of the vulnerable in the late 18th and early 19th centuries: Gilbert’s Act of 1782' History in Focus , Special Theme 'Welfare'  On-line article
Seminar and conference presentations
 S. Shave 2009 '‘Care and neglect’: Cases of Neglect in the Victorian Workhouse in England and Wales' . Paper presented to Social Sciences at The National Archives. 20 May 2009. The National Archives. (co-organiser of the seminar).
 S. Shave 2009 Understanding the role of work in the workhouse: bone-crushing and the negotiation of employment policy in the early years of the New Poor Law. Paper presented to Paper to be given at the Economic History Society Annual Conference. 3-5 April 2009. University of Warwick.  On-line abstract
 S. Shave 2009 Welfare provision under Gilbert's Act: the experience in Southern England, 1782-c.1850. Paper presented to British Agricultural History Society Spring Conference. 6-8 April 2009. University of Northampton.  On-line abstract
 S. Shave 2009 The Consequences of Neglect: Policy-making and the Victorian Workhouse System in England and Wales. Paper presented to Social Policy Association Annual Conference. 29 June-1 July. University of Edinburgh.  On-line abstract
 S. Shave 2009 to be presented “The Proposed Remedy”: the dissemination of local knowledge and the reform of the late eighteenth-century workhouse. In the workshop entitled 'Cultures of Community and Institutional Welfare in the 18th and 19th Centuries' Paper presented to Centre for the History of Welfare. 30 October 2009. Oxford Brookes University.
 S. Shave 2009 Local knowledge and ‘best practice’ under the Poor Laws, 1780-1850. Paper presented to Future Research in Economic and Social History (FRESH). 11 December, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford.
 S. Shave 2008 'A Policy for the Vulnerable? Experiences of and Negotiations for Relief in Gilbert's Unions, 1782-c.1845' Paper presented to European Social Science History Conference. February 2008, Lisbon (funded by a University of Southampton Postgraduate Conference Attendance Award)  On-line abstract
 S. Shave 2008 'Degraded to a parish slave? Individuals' experiences 'on the parish' in early nineteenth-century rural England' Paper presented to Institute of Historical Research, within the Life-cycles seminar series. September 2008, IHR  On-line abstract
 S. Shave 2008 'Being vulnerable and the workhouse experience in the South of England, 1782-c.1845' Paper presented to Sociology and Social Policy Research Seminar Series. May 2008. University of Southampton.  On-line abstract
 S. Shave 2008 '(Re)constructing lives 'on the parish': individuals' experiences of poor relief in the early nineteenth-century English south west' Paper presented to The Centre for English Local History. December 2008, University of Leicester.  On-line abstract
 S.Shave 2008 ' "Immediate death or a life of toture are the consequences of the system": The Bridgwater Union 'Scandal' and Policy Change' . Paper presented to Medicine and the Workhouse Seminar. (Sponsored by the Department of Modern History, the Centre for the History of Medicine in the University of Birmingham, and the Wellcome Trust), 31 October - 1 November 2008. Birmingham.
 S. Shave 2007 ‘Teasing out individual experiences through New Poor Law scandals: policy, practice and subjugation’. Paper presented to Social History Society Conference. March 2007, University of Exeter  On-line abstract
 S. Shave 2007 'The Rural Adoption of Gilbert's Act and Workhouse Policy Innovation in the South of England' Paper presented to Economic History Society Residential Training Course for Postgraduate Students. December 2007, University of Manchester (funded place supported by the ESRC's Researcher Development Initiative)
 S. Shave 2006 ‘A User's Perspective of Welfare: Individuals’ Life Experiences during the Old Poor Law’. Paper presented to European Social Science History Conference. March 2006, Amsterdam  On-line abstract
 S. Shave 2006 ‘Life-course Poverties: The Old Poor Law and the Individual’. Paper presented to Social Policy Association Conference, Postgraduate Workshop. July 2006, University of Birmingham
Book reviews
 S. Shave 2009 Review Forum: L. Patriquin, 'Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860: Rethinking the Origins of the Welfare State' (Palgrave, 2007) Cultural and Social History, 6 (1), 109-113.
 S. Shave 2008 Book Review: K.D.M. Snell, 'Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales 1700-1950' (Cambridge University Press, 2006) Journal of British Studies, 47 (2), 436-438.  On-line article